"Few voters who prioritize bigotry want the diet version." I think this wording epitomises the issue better than the similar, but more vague "voters prefer the original to the copy". Because it *is* bigotry we're talking about - and the far right will always beat democratic parties in that game.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

After going for a long walk, Moorton was shocked to discover that she no longer pines for the shadowy embrace of the reaper.

Matt Goodwin’s stance on migration is pretty much indistinguishable from that of the BNP in the past 1990s and not a million miles from that of the NF in the 1970s.

The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.

And the thrilling conclusion…

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Trygon prime - finished. Taking the photos realised I meant to do a bit more to the grey on the statue on the base, but a bit fiddly now I’ve glued it down. #nerdlings #warhammer #40k #tyranids

Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago. Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

The claim that "civil war is inevitable in the UK" is better understood as an expression of the author's desire to see blood spilt on British streets.

This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.

Yup.

When I post photos of painted minis, it’s mainly so I can immediately see mistakes/things I forgot to do that I hadn’t noticed before.

Think I’ll call the hormagaunts done. A cheeky week long side quest. Next in to the trygon base - think the AoS terrain piece will look good in custodes colours. #nerdlings #warhammer #40k #tyranids

It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that large parts of Westminster remaining on X - a platform that tolerates and amplifies extremism and racism - has led a great many people to normalise what previously was unacceptable.

Good to see @dailymail.co.uk @thetimes.com and @telegraphnews.bsky.social all delete their articles - sad the lies went up in the first place

Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh. news.sky.com/story/migran...

Public service announcement: The purpose of adverts isn't to accurately reflect society, it's to sell things.

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Some quick work in progress hormagaunts. Sponging is so much quicker on the carapace. #40k #warhammer #nerdlings #tyranids

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Absolutely this. Populism equals shit policies and a rejection of complexity. It’s slop to feed the disinterested, uninformed and gullible.

When mates ask you if you’re growing Trump’s neck vagina as well.

Tories have fucking lost their minds.

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all. Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

BREAKING NEWS In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.

Im comfortable with what my party is up to, but what about your party Jeremy? (Yes I know - but it’s still a stupid name)

Now boasting about giving "Bibi" all the "best weapons" the US had .... and gets a standing ovation. That's a standing ovation for the murder of tens of thousands of innocent people and Gaza reduced to rubble and a living hell.

A brief diversion from painting the chaos knights. The trygon had been sitting primed for a while - used it in a game last week so decided to get it painted up - wasn’t finished in time for the game but is now. Just the base to go. #nerdlings #warhammer #tyranids #trygon

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

perfect detail

Nearly finished. #warhammer #40k #tyranids #nerdlings

This is the "it was Agatha all along" theory of the UK Constitution. We were distracted by the EU, and the ECHR was the real big bad! Leaving it will fix everything! Leaving will not magically change any of these issues IF the UK still wants to be a liberal democracy: share.google/GCZ1CrP8raUU...

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies. Reform says something unhinged ⬇️ Labour counters with their own unhinged policy ⬇️ Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged ⬇️ Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response ⬇️ And repeat...🔁

Hate to say it but the replies to this have an exceptional amount of bluesky style missing the point.

I realise that there are lots of erudite and entirely correct reasons against leaving the ECHR, but surely the main one to be repeated ad nauseam is "from the people who told you Brexit would solve all of your problems - how did that work out for you?"

The bathrooms at The Shed are labeled the way all bathrooms should be.

Many of this are left cold by this. I sure am. But this - the kind of performative Andrew Tate cartoon-masculinity, the clumsy swagger, the maundering braggadocio, the needy desperate I‘M A MANLY MAN I’M A MANLY MAN, speaks to a howling void of inadequacy in some people’s souls.

“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'. - Terry Pratchett, The Truth

There is a key moral distinction between immigration policy on new arrivals, no matter how draconian, and on people who have already been granted status, on set conditions. It is about being a country that keeps its word. If we're not that, we might as well fucking give up now.

Really, Reform UK? THIS is what you're going with? That this man, who served as an MEP next to Nigel Farage for years and was made leader of your party in Wales by current deputy, Richard Tice, is just "one of tens of thousands of people Nigel meets on an annual basis"?~AA

A thing to watch for, discourse-wise, is racism-deniers & facilitators in ‘mainstream’ media trying to detoxify ideas that have been beyond the mainstream pale since the Eighties. The Liddles & Littlejohns openly relish the opportunity that Farage offers them to remove what’s left of their masks.